I made a small donation, and if you like it here, I think you should (if you can) too.
I am one of many that have sought out alternatives to Reddit. I really like the feel of how this community works. I’ve not seen them push the need for support, but I’m sure they’re feeling it. It’s clear they’ve made changes in the past couple of days to help support the growth & load.
That said, servers and bandwidth aren’t free, and they’ve seen a massive wave of influx.
Sidebar says: “Our instance is 100% user-funded - help us keep it running by donating.”
Click here for the Donate Link
Here’s the Open Collective Page with more info.
I’m not affiliated with Beehaw in any way other than being part of the exodus from Reddit, and I like it here.
*This is my first actual non-comment post, so here’s hoping I didn’t mess this up.
I donated the other day and I’m glad to see the user base here so willing to support the project!
If we want these places to succeed, we need to be willing to pay for them. It’s the only way to keep things running ad and data collection free.
I would have been happy paying Reddit to keep 3rd party app access… But they clearly think my data is worth more than a direct monthly fee. So I’ll give them neither and hang out here instead.
To anyone looking to donate here is a financial thread made by the admins for this month where they outline where money is going and how much is spent roughly each month (it is a few days old however and donations have increased since then so i would keep that in mind) https://beehaw.org/post/428209
I’m in, just set up a small monthly donation.
I’ve thrown in about $40 total since I joined. I should do monthly but I’m trying to cut down on subscriptions since I have a bad habit of signing up for a bunch and forgetting to cancel. I’ll try to make sure I actively donate regularly though as long as I’m using the instance. I appreciate the effort the admins have gone into making this instance and I want to do my part to help ease potential stress on the financial side at least
